by Wayness Tamm-Clattuc
I often feel that today’s liberals in my baby boom generation are secret pessimists.
This is true both of EU bureaucrats as I have seen for many years from my nice snug Swiss vantage point, and it is certainly the case now as I can see for myself on my recent
Archive for June, 2008
Secret Pessimists
Posted in Wayness Tamm-Clattuc on June 30, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Good News On The Face of It
Posted in How We Live(d) Here (& There), tagged Add new tag on June 26, 2008 | 8 Comments »
by Emmett R Smith
The US Supreme Court has thrown out the District of Columbia absolute ban on private gun ownership:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062600615.html
This is good news on the face of it, but “gun nuts” such as myself now
As Matters Stand Now: Some “Improved” Cadmium Carrots Maybe…And A Club For The Halfwits
Posted in As Matters Stand Now: on June 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
by Emmett R Smith
Mr Arizona Republican Senator John McCain may be the oldest contender for the Presidency in American history, but he is no slouch. Indisputably now he brings to bear the resourceful optimism of
Speak Of…Cthulhu
Posted in by Bodwyn Wook on June 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
by Bodwyn Wook
THIS Is ‘way kewl’, as some of our young would say:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErCqiJ4LnhI
SHORT, And not reassuring….
[Emmett R Smith all rights reserved 23 (!) June 2008]
George Carlin aetat 71
Posted in by Bodwyn Wook on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Bodwyn Wook
IN memoriam Mr George Carlin, who famously said (over and over):
“These political assholes don’t give a —- about us!”
[Emmett R Smith all rights reserved 23 June 2008]
As Matters Stand Now: McCain Ends Presidential Campaign
Posted in As Matters Stand Now: on June 22, 2008 | 18 Comments »
by Bodwyn Wook
THE Campaign by GOP presidential nominee-apparent Mr Arizona Republican Senator John McCain has been ended, by the candidate.
Mr McCain in effect called it quits earlier this week, when he said that the recent US Supreme Court ruling, in favor of habeas corpus petition-writs by US detainees at Guantanamo Bay, was
As Matters Stand Now: If It’s Not US Baby Bombers, Then You Tell Me What In Hell Is Wrong!
Posted in As Matters Stand Now: on June 18, 2008 | 7 Comments »
by Emmett R Smith
Mr Arizona Republican Senator John “Scabby” McCain says we “are winning” in Iraq — and although I perceive historically and, hence, objectively enough that in the end no nation really ever does win anything by war in the really longterm, there are signs now
A Heartwarming Example Of COOPERATION!
Posted in by Judson Andersen on June 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
by Judson Andersen
[With a big tip of the Bodwyn Wook tile to AEGW! -- BW]
I know that I’ve usually offended the Hell out of some of you touchier religious bastards who
It’s An Open Question…
Posted in Muslim and Beyond -- as-Safara lil'Abru on June 16, 2008 | 9 Comments »
by Emmett Smith
It’s an open question, just how well really are we going to like this posthuman “more spiritual” being, especially with nothing to be angry about and no one to hate, fear and call names?
[Emmett R Smith all rights reserved 15 June 2008]
Who Does The Work?
Posted in Muslim and Beyond -- as-Safara lil'Abru on June 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
by Mohammad Nejmi
The one who comes through the struggles of life more and more every day to do the work of the Sufi has a strong will, and more than enough love to go with it.
One hears and reads a lot about “saints” among the Sufis, and in Morocco
